Two challengers and an incumbent are seeking the District 4 Sullivan County Board of Education seat in Thursday's general election. The district includes parts of the Piney Flats, Bluff City and Blountville areas.

Alexander faces a challenge in the state's Thursday primary from a pair of tea party-styled primary challengers who have tried to cast the 74-year-old incumbent as out of touch with the state's increasingly conservative electorate.

Rep. Tony Shipley believes the status of our private property is the fundamental right of its owner and not some "greedy" city government. Shipley, facing challenger Bud Hulsey in the GOP primary, made this statement in a mailer.

GREENEVILLE - Two Mexican citizens appeared in U.S. District Court on Monday to answer to federal charges of being in the United States after being deported. One is previously convicted of sexual battery, the other of child abuse.